Mapped network drive not opening

[jj_wolven]

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.
The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

[Plato]

=?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:
>
> How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

Networking - General

http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04

Networking - NT/XP Specific

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx

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[Plato]

=?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:
>
> How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using explorer.exe?

[jj_wolven]

"Plato" wrote:

> I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.
The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.
> >

None of those helped. I do not have any problems setting up a network, it
is just the error that I described above when Mapping a Network Drive.

[Plato]

=?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:
>
> > Networking - General
> >
> > http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm
> > http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp
> > http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm
> > http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/
> > http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/category04
> >
> >
> > Networking - NT/XP Specific
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homenetworking/
> > http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpnetworking/
> > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813936
> > http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_network.htm
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/getstarted/default.mspx
> >
>
> None of those helped. I do not have any problems setting up a network, it
> is just the error that I described above when Mapping a Network Drive.

That's because you DID NOT READ them. I only posted them 2 minutes ago.

[jj_wolven]

"Plato" wrote:

Twenty minutes, which is plenty of time to read them. I did not find any
relevant material as to why a Mapped Drive suddenly stops working. I am
using the same method of creating Mapped Drives that I did last week on
another computer and it worked. Now it asks which program to use when
opening a mapped network drive. If one of those tutorials deals with this
issue please point out which and where, because I could not find anything
that even came close.

[Plato]

=?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:
>
> opening a mapped network drive. If one of those tutorials deals with this
> issue please point out which and where, because I could not find anything
> that even came close.

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[jj_wolven]

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows XP SP2.
The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows Explorer
it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe by
browsing
but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.

I have mapped a network drive like this before and it works. Also I have
had a previously working mapped drive give me this error as well.

Why does it now ask for a program to use?

[Sunny]

"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
news:43cc3b12$1$489$bb4e...@newscene.com...
> =?Utf-8?B?ampfd29sdmVu?= wrote:
<snip>

>> None of those helped. I do not have any problems setting up a network,
>> it
>> is just the error that I described above when Mapping a Network Drive.
>
> That's because you DID NOT READ them. I only posted them 2 minutes ago.

Actually it was more than 20 minutes, are you normally this arrogant ?
(or are you looking over the OP's shoulder ?)

[kwd]

> jj_wolvenwrote:

I am trying to map a network drive on a new installation of Windows
XP SP2.
> The drive will map, but when I try to connect to it through Windows
Explorer
> it give me an Open With... dialog box. I can choose explorer.exe
by
> browsing
> but the Always Use option is grayed out and cannot be selected.
>

> I have mapped a network drive like this before and it works. Also I
have
> had a previously working mapped drive give me this error as well.
>
> Why does it now ask for a program to use?

> How can I make a mapped network drive always connect using
explorer.exe?

I had the same issue on a machine running XP Pro and a friend found a
solution, maybe it will work for you. In the registry editor I did a
search for a key called MountPoints2. Under that key are listed
mapped resources, and a subkey to the one in question there was a
_Autoplay and a Shell key. After deleting both keys and saving the
registry, it worked as normal.